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‘Some horror films provide us with a link back to our primal and savage past, when homo sapiens were at the mercy of a confusing and barely understood world, chock full of sharp toothed predators on the look out for some bi-pedal protein.’

‘I remember - among many such memories - being led to a secret patch of chanterelles, a woodsy, nutty mushroom that preserves well, in a stand of primal spruce.’

‘At the end, four performers circled around the stage in a primal manner.’

‘‘Maybe human melody has extended but it still retains its primal shape and significance’ Professor Pont said.’

‘The sound she beat out was at once primal and primitive, yet nuanced, complex, flowing.’

‘Take away that civilization through some force of primal nature, and you will find the foundations of society quickly evaporate and the animal take over.’

‘Somehow olive picking seems to hit parts of him that his job at the university of Crete could never reach - it satisfies other, more primal, hunter-gatherer instincts.’

‘Therefore, the Titans and their progeny, the giants, represent a primal generation put down and suppressed by a more competitive, semi-urban, modern culture.’

‘As I look out across the roll of land now, it is difficult for me to peel off the past two hundred years and see the land as it was, original and primal.’

‘The origin of these summer traditions is a primal herd instinct, the urge to join with others in a festive act.’